In 2011 I was aghast when I learned a popular keycard / biometric system used FTP to pull down its cleartext list of acceptable keys from the server.

The username was something like ADMIN and the password was PASS.

And no, that wasn’t the FTP command; that was the password.

So I’m not surprised that there are still problems with these devices.

edit: more complete thought

“whose head should be sliced like onions” That is the most Slavic thing I’ve ever read.

You’re deluded. Russia is robbing Ukraine of land and people, full stop. They are kidnapping citizens and taking land from a country that is trying its damndest to be a democracy. Ukraine look to the West for their future and Putin cannot abide that.

Putin wants the Soviet Union back together; he wants that to be his legacy. He took Crimea with barely a shot fired and now he wants more. This is similar to what Hitler did, by the way: Austria, Sudetenland, then Poland.

Putin suppresses his political enemies in the old Russian way, by jailing them. Hitler suppressed his enemies by rounding them up and killing them or putting them in concentration camps.

Fuck Putin. He is a scared, small man from the KGB who never let go of the Soviet dream, a dream that could never work.